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Anybody who invests their retirement based on ESG at the expense of investment returns increases risk vs return and likely gets what they deserve.
The “prudent man” principle used to mean that pension managers had to invest for investment return and not for virtue signaling. I guess that is changing.
I guess one way to look at that is the more people flow money to ESG, the higher the returns for non ESG ownership positions.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)And now the nfl says nothing else to see in the other 649,997 emails.
You can’t make this up.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When will prevailing wisdom acknowledge that blight happens in areas where rights are not protected.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s a “commons problem” writ large. It’s all fine while a small proportion of wealthy households plug up, but wait until everybody has to.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)BD, you can’t win this one. Evidence that sea levels have been rising for 20k years is not evidence that you are not effing up the world with your SUV.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw where the NFLPA was considering a motion to release the other 650k emails.
My hunch is they will think about that and then decide against it. It would be stupid. Very stupid.
Like it or not, there are still personal thoughts and personal emails that ought to have the benefit of the doubt when it comes to loose talk.
While I have no doubt that Gruden has some negative stuff in his emails, I have to wonder why he was the target. Could it be that it’s because he called Goodell an “anti football pussy?” I think maybe so.
and, no there are no consequences for leaks that fit the dominant narrative.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s fascinating how quickly governance can go down the drain.
We are in trouble because the “adults” aren’t able to govern, and they have nobody to blame but themselves (and Trump).
Foreign policy is a disaster. Afghanistan, France, Israel, China, all in tatters or teetering.
immigration is a disaster. Nothing more to say.
Fiscal policy is a disaster-debt limit, new borrowing, no discussion whatsoever of what the nation can bear in terms of new spending. We are about to increase taxes on the productive in order to subsidize the lazy and unable.
monetary policy is a disaster – inflation is running amok. Savers are getting crushed. Assets are in a historic bubble. The little man is being eaten away by invisible taxes.
Social policy is a disaster – it’s arguable that vaccines would have never even been made under this regime had election been in 2019. Rents are about to skyrocket due to national eviction moratoriums.
Funny that nobody is running with photos of Biden with the stack of executive orders reversing trump policies anymore. Remember those?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)What were Don Trump’s really negative policies? He talked tough on the border but the current situation is far far worse. He slapped tariffs on China but those haven’t been removed. His COVID response was no more criticizable than those proposed by others.
The people who were most upset about Trump were those who were most aligned with the statist / academic mafia. I don’t know anybody who is in the for-profit world who really disagrees with the policy agenda of the Trump administration. I know plenty who hated the persona and voted against him.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want him to be president again and believe that his work undermining the electoral process is despicable, but Biden proves we can do worse.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)While I don’t trust Newsweek at all, I’m not at all surprised by this “news.”
We had an executive who rankled everybody but got (good) things done (if you don’t think renegotiating NAFTA, lowering the corporate tax rate, and putting China on notice weren’t good things, take another look). Now we have a doddering fool who can’t get things done, and who happens to rankle people despite being a “decent guy.”
I’ve typed this to you guys before: Trump, while hated and despicable, was for America despite being accused of weakening America. Biden, despite being touted as a statesman and “true American,” has generally taken actions that have weakened America and its alliances.
It’s truly astounding to see the contrast and to live the cognitive dissonance.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Gr, here’s the question: who is the audience for this kind of “contrarian” writing?
The people of color who understand the stats don’t need an article on it.
The folks who choose not to believe that the US is a land of opportunity for all and that the stats show it won’t be convinced with facts.
somebody needs to tell all those Haitians that they are entering nazi Germany because they certainly have other choices. But, of course they know that such nonsense is just that…nonsense. And, I believe they know it has nothing to do with government entitlements. It’s truly possible to work hard as do well in the US regardless of color or status. It’s an amazing country in that respect. May we never lose it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Ha ha ha.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I do not, but then again I can see the rationale to some degree.
If we are talking direct payments, the best approach to reparations would be to require direct payments from white, Latino, Asian, etc. people to specific African American families. It should be done in a way that there is visibility of who is paying and who is receiving. That way, when a poor Latino in tx has to contribute real $$$ to a black family living in a suburban community in DC on a civil servants salary and pension, we can see the lunacy of the policy.
There should be none of this government borrowing silliness, it should be today’s people paying today’s people, directly. Can’t pay? Have the government back the loan for the immediate payment and the Latina grandma stuck with the bill can pass that on to her kids.
The argument that somehow today’s people owe for the sins of yesterday’s people is an awfully regressive principle. It also presumes guilt, which is anti American.
If we are not talking direct payments, then I would include all aid programs disproportionately targeted to or accessed by slave descendants into account in the determination of future reparations.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes that kinda gives us a measure of ourselves.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You know? The envoy isn’t right. If it’s inhumane to return a person to their country of origin because the security situation of that entire country, then where does that leave us? Are all Haitians technically refugees? Even those who have not lived in Haiti for the past year? Do we just declare Haiti an American protectorate?
It’s silly. We are not obligated to open our borders for people who will not demand better government in their own country. Importing a humanitarian crisis is not a part of the deal.
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